Kesara Freamon (
heavensreader) wrote2016-01-07 11:50 pm
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[IC Inbox -- Snowblind]
Is it worki - oh. Ahem. This is Kesara Freamon. Please leave your message here and I will call back on you as soon as I can.
Wait, is it still - argh, how do I ma-
Wait, is it still - argh, how do I ma-
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[Alfie doesn't usually swear when he's talking to Kesara, but this time, he slips.]
House is your friend. You were affected by the situation.
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[She snaps it off. No argument.]
But that's what I thought about Ecks - that is, I wanted to make sure she's all right, because he is her teacher. Telling her about Duster was a mistake, but, it isn't that she's not involved. Even though Duster thought so.
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[She mutters it like it's a talisman. It'll protect her.]
Duster said it's finished. I said fine. And House didn't want Ecks to do it, so he probably thinks it's finished, too. But something else will happen sooner or later. All of us know that.
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[She sounds highly doubtful, but not sarcastic. It would be very nice if he could believe it enough to convince her.]
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[Is she being logical, or only stubborn? It's confused in her own head. There's a fretting fear that keeps her pushing, angry that he isn't giving her the answers she wants...]
That's what I keep thinking. That is how you make people who are different stop fighting. By making them all part of one thing - a regiment, or gang, or expedition.
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[He at least doesn't want to dismiss her ideas without hearing them first.]
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[She'd been hoping he'd have an idea or two. But if this is the challenge, then she is not giving up on it quite yet.]
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[Those are two of the three options. The third is not trying at all.]
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Or you try to get them to think it was all their idea to come under someone's banner. Not me, maybe, but - someone who's better for it than me. Someone older. A man.
[She's not making any proposals. Just saying.]
And then if there isn't loyalty, it's other people's problem too.
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[He sounds a little dry.]
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I've heard that criminals only follow brute strength. But that's ridiculous. The smugglers I travel with, Roksann and Lao Dian... Roksann is much stronger than Lao Dian. She can shoot and fence better than a British officer, and he's a cripple. But when he says to do something, she listens to him because she knows he'll get her what she wants. It's not because he's a good man, either. It's because she knows, when you listen to him, good things happen... and when you don't, bad things do.
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I've told you I was in a war, yeah?
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You did, but, you didn't say anything about your father in it.
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